07-06-2018, 07:18 PM
The long term effects are more lasting than the short term ones, and can either uplift or hurt more than the short term ones. For what it's worth, the folks who have put all their emotional energy into an animal became devastated when it died, and they recovered from it, but it was one of the most difficult times of their life. Companionship with any one animal is only temporary regardless of how that time was spent with them, regardless how it plays out according to their behavior as a breed or their personality as an individual.
